Ages ago I’d posted about mysteriously no longer being able to get MS Update to work properly, and having to get Patch Tuesday updates by downloading the appropriate patch files via the bulletins. Many different suggestions were offered, none of which worked.
There’s been a number of threads about similar problems, both here and over at Wilders. Someone offered a new suggestion in one of these, the possibility that the update engine (in Downloaded Program Files) might have become corrupted and to remove this and have MS Update re-install it (in that initial “checking for current version …” stage).
So I gave that a shot, as I had both the older Win and newer MS files in that folder and deleted them. When I then went to Update, I was mildly surprised that there was no re-installation (or at least I didn’t get the usual request for consent to install the active-x thing), but it then did do all the October updates properly. Slow as molasses, but that wasn’t surprising since apparently this was a record-breaking month for updates and their servers were probably just a tad busier than usual.
So if anyone else has been having problems with MS Update, there’s one more thing to try.
Thanks, MikeBCda… for posting how this nagging nemesis can be reined in.
Could you kindly provide a link to the forum where you came across this solution? would be much appreciated, as i have been experiencing this heartburn and had looked far and wide for a solution… obviously, not far enough.
Sorry, greyshade, as I thought I’d noted in my original post, I don’t remember where I found this particular one. But it would have to have been either somewhere here or somewhere over at Wilders Security. It was within the last few days, wherever.
